[Federal Register: June 26, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 123)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Endangered Species; Permits
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and issuance
of permit for incidental take of endangered species.
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On November 20, 2001, a notice was published in the Federal
Register (Vol. 66, No. 224 FR 58159) of the availability of a draft
Environmental Assessment and Habitat Conservation Plan and that a
permit application had been filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service) by an Interagency Task Force located in Indianapolis,
Indiana. The permit was to incidentally take, pursuant to section
10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1539), as
amended, Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) in the vicinity of Six Points
Road and related development within Hendricks and Marion Counties
pursuant to the terms of the Habitat Conservation Plan.
Notice is hereby given that on April 4, 2002, the Proposed Action
(Alternative 3) was selected and a Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI) determination was made for the action as described in the final
Environmental Assessment. As authorized by the provisions of the Act,
the Service issued a permit (TE-048991) to the above named party
subject to certain conditions set forth therein. The permit was granted
only after the Service determined it was applied for in good faith,
that granting the permit would not be to the disadvantage of the
endangered species, and that it was consistent with the purposes and
policy set forth in the Endangered Species Act, as amended.
Additional information on this permit may be requested by
contacting Mr. Peter Fasbender, at (612) 713-5343, or
peter_fasbender@fws.gov. The final Environmental Assessment and final
Habitat Conservation Plan can be viewed on the Service's Regional
website at: http://midwest.fws.gov/NEPA.
Dated: May 23, 2002.
Charlie Wooley,
Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Region 3, Fort
Snelling, Minnesota.
[FR Doc. 02-16091Filed 6-25-02; 8:45 am]
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